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Paper Title 1

"And any part of my body or spirit that may be turned aright": Blurred Boundaries of Heart and Mind in Old English Poetry

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Hana Videen (Tashjian Travel Award Winner)

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Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, King's College London

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Sensing Transformations between Human, Stone, and Ivory in William Caxton's Book of Ovyde Named Methamorphose

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Sophia Wilson

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King's College London

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Mutations of a Half-Serpent: How the Legend of Mélusine traveled around Western Europe

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Lydia Zeldenrust

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Glosses, Inscriptions, and the Cultural Lives of Manuscripts: The Paratexts of Arthurian Literature Owned by Fifteenth-Century Women

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Rebecca Lyons

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Univ. of York

Start Date

16-5-2015 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 106

Description

This session looks at various examples of 'blurred boundaries' in medieval literature, including the boundary between humans and nonhumans, the limits or borders of the body, and the boundaries between regions, cultures, and languages. The papers also examine the blurring of readership and ownership, and even the boundary of the medieval period itself is questioned.

Lydia Zeldenrust

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This session looks at various examples of 'blurred boundaries' in medieval literature, including the boundary between humans and nonhumans, the limits or borders of the body, and the boundaries between regions, cultures, and languages. The papers also examine the blurring of readership and ownership, and even the boundary of the medieval period itself is questioned.